TopoNets 2020
Networks beyond pairwise interactions
Satellite @ NetSci 2020 Rome - September 18, 19
ONLINE
The complexity of many biological, social and technological systems stems from the richness of the interactions among their units. Over the past two decades, a great variety of complex systems has been successfully described as networks whose interacting pairs of nodes are connected by links. Yet, from face-to-face human communications to chemical and biological reactions, many interactions in networked systems cannot be described by simple dyads, as they can occur in groups composed by any number of units. Until recently, little attention has been devoted to such high-order architecture of real complex systems. However, a mounting body of evidence is showing that taking the high-order structure of these systems into account can greatly enhance our modelling capacities and help us to understand and predict their emerging dynamical behaviours.
The aim of this satellite is to provide a coherent window on the emerging subfield of networks beyond pairwise interactions. In particular, we will discuss how to represent higher-order interacting systems, and how to unify the diverse frameworks most commonly used to describe higher-order interactions, highlighting the numerous links between the existing concepts and representations. We also focus on recent advancements on the structural measures developed to characterize the structure of these systems, on the related generative models, and on novel emergent phenomena characterizing landmark dynamical processes when extended beyond pairwise interactions.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Queen Mary University of London
Simplicial complexes and dynamics
CNR - IMATI
Topological tools for network description
Higher-order interactions in ecological systems
Queen Mary University of London
The dynamics of higher-order interactions
Indiana University
Topological characterization of multi-variate brain dynamics
RWTH Aachen University
Signal Processing and random walks on graphs and simplicial complexes
PROGRAMME
Friday, September 18 2020, 13:15-18:00 (CET)
13:15 - 13:30 Opening
13:30 - 14:45 Ecosystems and biology
Jacopo Grilli (International Centre for Theoretical Physics)
Sergi Valverde, Blai Vidiella
Florian Klimm, Charlotte M. Deane, Gesine Reinert
Emerson G. Escolar, Yasuaki Hiraoka, Mitsuru Igami, Yasin Ozcan
14:45 - 15:00 Virtual Coffee Break
15:00 - 16:15 Social systems and contagion
Vito Latora (Queen Mary University of London)
Nicholas Landry, Juan Restrepo
Byungnam Kahng, Yongsun Lee, Jongshin Lee, Deokjae Lee
16:15 - 16:30 Virtual Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:45 Methods
Ulderico Fugacci (CNR - IMATI)
Marco Guerra, Alessandro De Gregorio, Ulderico Fugacci, Giovanni Petri, Francesco Vaccarino
Robin Wooyeong Na, Bryan Daniels, Kenneth Aiello
Anibal Medina, Fernando Rosas, Rodrigo Cofre, Pedro Mediano
17:45 - 18:00 Closing
Saturday, September 19 2020, 13:15-18:00 (CET)
13:15 - 13:30 Opening
13:30 - 14:45 Dynamical systems
Ginestra Bianconi (Queen Mary University of London)
Maxime Lucas, Giulia Cencetti, Federico Battiston
Anastasiya Salova, Raissa D'Souza
Timoteo Carletti, Duccio Fanelli, Sara Nicoletti
14:45 - 15:00 Virtual Coffee Break
15:00 - 16:15 Random walks, clustering and embedding
Michael Schaub (RWTH Aachen University)
Stefania Ebli, Gard Spreemsann
Francesca Arrigo, Desmond J. Higham, Francesco Tudisco
Celia Hacker
16:15 - 16:30 Virtual Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:45 Higher-order neuroscience
Alice Patania (Indiana University)
Marilyn Gatica, Rodrigo Cofre, Pedro Mediano, Fernando Rosas, Patricio Orio, Ibai Diez, Stephan Swinnen, Jesus Cortes
Leonardo Novelli, Fatihcan M. Atay, Juergen Jost, Joseph T. Lizier
Fernando A N Santos, Ernesto P Raposo, Maurício Domingues Coutinho-Filho, Mauro Copelli, Cornelis J Stam, Linda Douw
17:45 - 18:00 Closing
REGISTRATION
All meeting participants need to be registered to the main conference here (full conference or single day).
ORGANIZERS
Central European University
Queen Mary University of London & University College London
ISI Foundation
Polytechnic University of Turin
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - CLOSED
The satellite will have space for contributed talks in the form of 10/15-minute presentations. Participants are invited to submit an abstract in PDF format using the EasyChair website (button below).
Topics of interest relate to higher-order structures (HOrSs) and network topology, and include
Higher-order representations of interacting systems
Structural measures for HOrS
Generative models for HOrS (growing simplicial complexes, bipartite graphs, hypergraphs etc.)
Dynamical processes on HOrS (diffusion, spreading, synchronization, games etc.)
Applications to real-world systems (TDA)
Stochastic topology
Topological properties of network embedding into metric or pseudo-metric spaces
Topological properties of geometric representations of networks
Submissions should be at most 2 pages long (figure included) and should include: title, author(s), affiliation(s), and e-mail address(es).
Submissions will be evaluated and selected by the Program Committee members, based on the adherence with the theme of the satellite, originality and scientific soundness.
Deadline for submissions: July 15.
Acceptance notifications: by July 21 (deadline of EarlyBird registration)
Authors not already registered on EasyChair should sign up for an account (please note: make sure to use the same email address as the one used for the conference registration).